Entec Si brand and website
We’ve recently created a brand and website for Entec Si, a service transformation and technology services consultancy who had a critical role in the new Library of Birmingham. Our team of consultants...
View ArticleCreative journeys event
Substrakt was lucky enough to be invited to talk at the Creative Journeys – Meet the professionals event, which is aimed at kids in education from GCSE – College, with the goal of helping them out with...
View ArticleNorthcourt House
Identity and website for Northcourt House, a magnificent Grade II listed Jacobean manor house on the Isle of Wight. The post Northcourt House appeared first on Substrakt.
View ArticleFoyer 21
Following our work on the re-design and development of the Foyer website earlier last year, the team at Foyer asked for our help with their 21st anniversary celebrations. The project team included...
View ArticleCentenary Connections for IWM
We have just launched a mobile app and website for a project called Centenary Connections which has been led by Imperial War Museum North. Centenary Connections uncovers objects and stories from...
View ArticleDeploying web apps at Substrakt
Deploying highly-available, redundant and responsive full-stack web-based applications is not easy. But we’re pretty good at it. First off: Hi, I’m Max. The new Senior Developer at Substrakt. My...
View ArticleTalis.com
Talis are a Birmingham based company who create software for higher education and libraries with the aim of making teaching and learning easier. We’ve been working with Talis for a few years now,...
View ArticleWhat Shellshock means for you
You might read online or in the papers about a new vulnerability (or bug) nicknamed “shellshock”. This is the second major vulnerability to enter the news stream this year, after “heartbleed”, and it...
View ArticlemyNIV
myNIV is a resource for people affected with motor neurone disease (MND) who use non-invasive ventilation to improve the quality of their lives. MND is a term commonly used to group together disorders...
View ArticleModern Art Oxford
The challenge was on when we started working with Modern Art Oxford in early September, but with a week to spare, we launched a new site in time for their incredible new exhibition ‘Love is Enough’...
View ArticleGlenn Howells Architects
Glenn Howells Architects is an internationally renowned architectural practice. With over 80 staff operating across two self-designed spaces in Birmingham and London, GHA are a sizeable organisation....
View ArticleDjango developers please
Substrakt are looking for a talented Django developer to work full-time on two key projects for the education and creative sectors. There’s scope to work on new projects too. You’ll join a tight-knit...
View ArticleTime Tracking with Slack
Tracking time is boring. But knowing how much time we spend on a particular project is invaluable to us as a business. We recently moved to Slack as our internal communication tool and we wanted to...
View ArticleNew Art WM
Funded and supported by Arts Council England and Birmingham City University, New Art WM represents contemporary art in the region. We were commissioned to design and develop the website, creating a...
View ArticleAmmba
Ammba are a Birmingham based content and digital strategy company with whom we work closely on a number of projects. Therefore, when they asked us to update their website, it was in everyone’s best...
View ArticleKicking-off with Project Art Works
We’ve recently started work on a new website for Project Art Works (PAW), an organisation based in Hastings who do some exceptional work. “Project Art Works is an artist-led organisation. We work with...
View ArticleSketch Review – Switching from Illustrator to Sketch
We’ve been using Sketch for a several months to produce our interface wireframes and designs. As we’ve had time to settle in with the app, I thought I’d jot down my thoughts on the app itself, focusing...
View ArticleWomen in Film & TV discovery workshop
At the beginning of August we met with Women in Film & TV to kickoff a new website project. Women in Film & TV is the membership organisation for women working in creative media in the UK, film...
View ArticleScaling WordPress with HHVM on Heroku
tl;dr; Unless you’re Facebook, infinitely scaleable and WordPress don’t often go hand-in-hand, except when we’re involved. Birmingham Hippodrome uses Heroku to serve tens of thousands of requests daily...
View ArticleColour Variables in Sass
We work with sass everyday so I thought I’d share a little snippet of framework that I tend to use with each project. It sits in a base sass file and, with a few minutes tweaking at the start of a...
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